Friday, 9 March 2012

I am called Joseph sekiku from FADECO Community radio in Tanzania. I am a member of Amarc and also of the national Community Media network in tanzania. I have read your email with much interest. Considering a suitable mobile platform, you can try with FRONTLINE SMS and also FREEDOMFONE. You can google these directly on the internet.

As you know that SL is still struggling in finding an attractive and alternative model to trigger the active community radio movement in SL. I think it's more than enough that most of us glorifying the Sri Lankan *myth of Community radio*. ****

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In the first world radio day conference, assisted by the ICT agency of Sri Lanka, our newly elected members of Sri Lankan CR forum, agreed to create an online community radio model – a national one, in which most of the core principles of CR could be applied and a wider platform can be created for the betterment of the voiceless community. ****

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In this case, we are planning for an online community radio – at a national level, this can only be a model for us to trigger the dialogue on CR and produce some quality media outputs that can cater the disadvantaged. I am as head of the forum, seeking your consultation, advice, suggestions, knowledge inputs and guidance on following. ****

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We needs to learn a successful experience in connecting mobile phone directly to the online radio****

Can it be a bilingual or trilingual media platform - I am preferred to make it in Sinhala, Tamil, and English? ****

Any simple or successful experience in reaching the civil society via mobile phones. We too have some successful initiatives funded by ICTA. ****

Does anyone have a best way of using online platform for dialogue with civil society? it can be forum, blog, social media or anything. ****

Any experience in recording automatically the phone calls, Skype calls an, ect so that civil society can participate in programme making. We have initiative in SL called *techkatha*. I am keen on more cases. ****

I am planning to have at least 30 regional journalists/*Nenasala* operators (Rural access centre) who can communicate and contribute us in sharing public concerns with us. ****

Since this is going to be a muti-lingual platform, any user-friendly way of engaging podcasting in a manner that we can categorise podcasting according to the language. ****

Any experience in transmitting the webcasting through a FM radio channel? ** **

What could be the best server? ****

What could be the best streamer? ****

What could be the software's that could be used for this purpose? ****

If anything you think that I could consider..? ****

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I hope we can get some expertise from ICTA, which is an apex body of SL government to implement ITC initiatives. But it's momentary for to approach them with some homework's. ****

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I would greatly appreciate in reviewing a mail, link, case, contact and call from you. ****

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Creative-Radio is an independent forum for people active in or interested in the use of radio in development, in particular promoting public health, improved education, protection of the environment, improved livelihoods, good governance and conflict mitigation. Since it started in 1996, Creative-Radio has been in the forefront of radio's resurgence as a tool for social change and peace-building, and it helps promote best practice in these areas.